The post's author seems to be having a bad blogging ettique. He seemed to have edited his posts after receiving comments/feeback. And he has included the 'update' section in his post only after a reader noticed the editing and told him to do so.
@pmorici: agree with you
If G and Mozillia really wanted to get rid of the ad blocking software, they would have released a patch to somehow make the extentension unworkable.
Now for the question as to why Mozilla Firefox doesn't come with ad blocking extensions pre-installed, the answer is easy and straight. It is because Firefox base system has always been kept to the bare minimals else they could have included all the usually used plugins & extensions like Flash player, Real Player, Java Runtime Environment, etc
As for shipping with Google Toolbar, the author shouldn't be bothered about this fact since the are two versions: with google toolbar pre-installed and without google toolbar. And you can choose what you want.
Yahoo! too shipped IE7 with Yahoo Toolbar. IE as fas as I know uses MSN's "page not found" (I have IE6 on XP and haven't bothered to update it since I use Firefox)
And for using Google as the default search engine, all my non-tech friends know is "internet is google". The moment they need something... Go to firefox address bar and type google.com
Even though other search engines are beginning to have clutter free pages homepages like Google. Its Google that made its mark first with the both - good results and clutter free pages - and quickly won users(most of them now being loyal followers of any 'good' and necessary G product).
Instead of using the small google search box, you can directly use the search phrase into the firefox address bar.
But I have noticed something: I typed "Hacker" in the address bar and I got a google search page. But when I typed "distrowatch", it took me to distrowatch.com
I think the behavior of this feature is like... it takes you to a website if the term entered is not a dictionary term. If the term entered is a dictonary term is takes you to a google search results page.
I have started using this frequently since I access the address bar with F6. I just enter my search terms. I am comfortable with this since most of my searches are with non-dictionary terms like "term vector tutorials" or "how to make pizza"
@pmorici: agree with you
If G and Mozillia really wanted to get rid of the ad blocking software, they would have released a patch to somehow make the extentension unworkable.
Now for the question as to why Mozilla Firefox doesn't come with ad blocking extensions pre-installed, the answer is easy and straight. It is because Firefox base system has always been kept to the bare minimals else they could have included all the usually used plugins & extensions like Flash player, Real Player, Java Runtime Environment, etc
As for shipping with Google Toolbar, the author shouldn't be bothered about this fact since the are two versions: with google toolbar pre-installed and without google toolbar. And you can choose what you want.
Yahoo! too shipped IE7 with Yahoo Toolbar. IE as fas as I know uses MSN's "page not found" (I have IE6 on XP and haven't bothered to update it since I use Firefox)
And for using Google as the default search engine, all my non-tech friends know is "internet is google". The moment they need something... Go to firefox address bar and type google.com
Even though other search engines are beginning to have clutter free pages homepages like Google. Its Google that made its mark first with the both - good results and clutter free pages - and quickly won users(most of them now being loyal followers of any 'good' and necessary G product).